Anyone using their old Mac? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Aug 2002

On Sat, Aug 3, 2002 9:20 am,  Ethan Dicks &lt;erd_6502(a)yahoo.com&gt;wrote;wrote:
...
   Projects I
have not been able to do.
 1. Connect any Macintosh running System 6 to the internet 
ISTR doing that with MacTCP 1.x (an addon install, not included
in System 6) and a SCSI<->Ethernet box.  I'm fairly certain that
the ethernet box came with System 6 drivers, but if someone here
knows that it flat-out can't be done, then I'm probably mistaken.
I have never tried it with dial-up, if that's what you mean.  
You can down the necessary control panels off the Internet, but I have
never been able to get through to my ISP. I haven't got an Ethernet box.
Problem with Ethernet for the LCII is that it takes the socket you need for
the Apple IIe card.

-chris added:

...
 There are also System 6 drivers for the Farallon
Etherwave 
localtalk->ethernet adaptor, however, the Etherwave doesn't support 
TCP/IP (limit of the Appletalk, not of the etherwave), so you have to use 
MacIP (TCP/IP wrapped in AppleTalk), and a MacIP to TCP/IP bridge (like 
IPNetRouter running on another Mac). And again, I see no reason it can't 
be done. 
It would be more useful to be to be able to connect a S6 Mac to the
Internet from any phone socket which is why I was trying to do it dial up.
It is has to go via another machine, then there isn't any advantage.
Obviously you can ethernet another mac to your iMac.

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   1. Connected
the Apple II to the BBC Micro using the games socket on the
 Apple and transfered data successfully. (hard) 
Did you write a bit-banger serial port for the Apple?  
I am not sure what this expression means. I connected the Apple games
socket to the BBC Micro User port and used an adapted version of the RS232
serial program which is in the "Red Book"